Bailey’s Writing Tips podcast – short stories episode no.38

23Mar

Bailey’s Writing Tips podcast ‘short stories’ episode number 38 went live today and contained four flash fiction pieces / three flash fictions and a batch of 6-worders, that have appeared on my blog as Flash Fiction Fridays. Do email me should you like to submit your own.

Salvatore Buttaci is an obsessive-compulsive writer whose work has appeared widely. He was the 2007 recipient of the $500 Cyber-wit Poetry Award. His poems, stories, articles, and letters have appeared widely in publications that include New York Times, U. S. A. Today, The Writer, Writer’s Digest, Cats Magazine, The National Enquirer, Christian Science Monitor, Author‘s Info, A Word with You Press, and AustinBriggs.com.

Sal Buttaci is a former English instructor at a local community college and middle-school teacher in New Jersey, who retired in 2007 to commit himself to full-time writing.

Paula Friedman’s literary historical novel The Rescuer’s Path (2012, PVP) has received considerable acclaim; Ursula Le Guin called it “exciting, physically vivid, and romantic”; Cheryl Strayed says it “held me from the first line to the last”; Flannery O’Connor Award winner Carole Glickfeld states “I could not stop reading—I loved this novel.”

Paula’s short fiction and poetry have received Pushcart Prize nominations and New Millenium Writing, Oregon State Poetry Association, Indigo Press, Soapstone, and other awards and residencies, and have appeared in over thirty magazines and anthologies, including Earth’s Daughters, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Montreal Serai, and First of the Month.

A writing instructor in northern Oregon and a freelance book editor for university and trade presses, Friedman is putting together an anthology of science fiction microstories. She previously directed the prestigious international Rosenberg Awards in Jewish poetry, managed public relations for a major Jewish museum, edited the progressive Open Cell literary review/collective, and co-edited the anthology Gathered from the Center.

Jane Risdon began writing seriously three years ago after a life spent in the International Music Industry where she managed recording artists, record producers and songwriters from all over the world.

Putting her own wishes to write on hold throughout her Music career had unseen benefits in that she has garnered a wealth of material for her stories. She now has time to write crime and mysteries and has three novels on the go at the moment. Another is a co-written novel with an award winning author and which she hopes will be published in 2014.

Jane has also had short stories published in various anthologies in aid of charity and has another anthology due out in 2014 involving authors from across the globe. Her short stories and flash fiction stories have been published and pod-cast on the internet frequently. These stories are often, but not always, crime related and she often writes humorous short stories based on her observations of characters she has met or knew in the past – heavily disguised of course.

Married to a musician and being involved in the Music Industry for many years, travelling and living in many countries including SE Asia, China, USA and Europe, Jane draws on all her experiences for her writing.

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